joker3300

Wow... now that's what I call finding treasure! It's strange all that jewelry was still in there. Maybe the bad guys heard you coming & dropped their loot. Did you make it the police station yet? Edited to add: I thought your username looked familiar! We've really enjoyed all your new hides in the area. Out of curiosity... what city did you find the duffle bag in? I found the duffle bag in Moline while looking for waterfallfrog's Halloween 3. The police station was closed so I had to use a phone in the lobby to call their dispatcher. After explaining everything to the officer and leaving, he called me back and said he knew somebody who geocached and wanted the coords. I gave them to him and later got an email from the dispatcher who I had talked to. She commended me on my honesty. She looked up the coords and then read my log. I never found out if the owner got her jewelry back. It will probably be auctioned off by the Moline PD. Hope not.

The other day I was searching for a cache at night at the end of a dead end road. I see something black and red with my flashlight and go around to see what it was. It turned out to be a duffle bag which was zipped up. I could tell that there was something in it and curiosity got the best of me so I had to open it. Inside was a lock box which had been broken into filled with jewelry boxes, all full. There was another jewelry box with a bunch of necklaces and rings as well. Included in one of the boxes was a diamond engagement ring that looked to be about 2 karats! There was also a locket with the word "Mom" on the outside and photos of her and her children inside. I put the treasure in my Jeep, finished finding the cache, and headed off to the police station. Hopefully, they will reunite the woman with her stolen jewelry.